Education
Analysis and reporting on America’s schools, from kindergarten to college.
A new report finds that the historic school segregation ruling has been undermined in recent decades.
Critics say efforts to increase the number of armed school personnel ignore the concerns of students of color.
Eight things I wish people understood about my old job.
Why dozens of wealthy parents are being charged by the FBI.
Also: What Lauren Hill can teach us about sexual conflict.
Warren doesn’t just want tuition-free college. She also wants to cancel millions of Americans’ student debt.
A teacher at an Arizona charter school had third graders yell at a black student during a lesson on school segregation. It’s part of a larger problem.
The legally sanctioned fencing-out of low-income students of color.
The Department of Justice announced the plea deals in a bribery and fraud case that captured national attention.
The states argue that the lax nutrition regulations are a threat to students’ health.
After racist incidents at schools in Charlottesville and the Bronx, students have taken action to make school officials address deeper inequities.
Worse than the bribery is that elite schools admit almost no poor kids.
The education secretary says it’s one of the “difficult decisions” the Trump administration had to make.
The Trump administration is also proposing forgiving all undergraduate student loans after 15 years.
Teachers’ pay has been stagnating for years. Harris wants to give them a raise.
Trump is tying free speech to federal research grant money. That’s already part of current law.
America’s broken education system fails poor black and Hispanic students well before college application season.
And shows why we need affirmative action.
The scandal could break down misconceptions about money, merit, and status — if Americans are willing to listen.
“The way the world works these days is unbelievable.”
Why faking disability accommodations is so damaging to disabled students.
Fake water polo players, fake SAT scores, and lots and lots of very real bribery allegations.
Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg teamed up to overhaul Newark schools. Did they succeed or fail?
The fraud only worked because the whole system is corrupt.
Why Full House’s Aunt Becky and a host of other wealthy Californians are under FBI investigation.
Why Sen. Brian Schatz thinks the time is ripe for his debt-free college plan.
Publishers say digital options make textbooks cheaper. Affordability advocates say it increases their stranglehold on the market.
Powell Jobs founded the Emerson Collective, which owns Pop-Up Magazine and has a majority stake in the Atlantic.
The district doubled teachers’ pay raises, for starters.
They’re also demanding more support staff, smaller class sizes, and more oversight of charter schools.
Teachers say they can no longer afford to live in an area that has seen an economic boom fueled by the tech industry.
This time, it’s not about pay raises.
“We’ve had it.”
Denver teachers snagged $23 million in pay raises during a three-day strike.
Here’s why.
One school just got rid of its Title IX coordinator. The debate could be a sign of things to come.
Teachers would get a pay raise and smaller classes after their week-long strike.
Why making it someone’s job to use evidence-based thinking in government could yield big benefits.
A discrimination case against Harvard puts affirmative action in the spotlight again — but the debate often paints an inaccurate picture of the policies.
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the persistence of segregation in American life.